Posted on 07/30/2007 6:43:06 AM PDT by george76
Police think Ricardo Ramirez, 23, of El Jebel used a semi-automatic M-1 carbine rifle to fire shots through the store window, into the area behind the counter where the clerks work, shortly after 11 p.m. that night.
Police are looking to arrest Ramirez on felony charges.
Police said they found an M-1 rifle in Ramirez's El Jebel home on July 11 and that three 30-millimeter shell casings found at the 7-Eleven after the shooting were consistent with the type of ammunition typically used with an M-1 rifle. The rifle has since been sent to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation for "latent print examination" and ballistics testing.
Police have issued a wanted poster with Ramirez's picture and photos ... The car is said to closely resemble the description of the vehicle leaving the scene of the shooting.
Earlier that evening, two men exchanged words with a store clerk, Bruno Kirchenwitz, and then drove off. Kirchenwitz was apparently known by the men for wearing a hat that said "U.S. Border Patrol" on it and for expressing negative opinions about illegal workers in the United States.
Kirchenwitz has also become something of a folk hero on Internet Web sites that focus on immigration reform, especially on sites that tend to take a conservative hard line against amnesty for illegal workers in the U.S.
Ikeda ...didn't know if Ramirez was a U.S. citizen or whether he was in the country working legally or not.
(Excerpt) Read more at aspendailynews.com ...
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The way the title is written implies Bruno is the suspect.
Millimeter, caliber, what's the difference?
</sarcasm>
The reporter is likely a liberal...
‘Aspen Daily News’ ....says it all. Aspen, and most other resort towns in Colorado, are very liberal. You shouldn’t expect the reporters to get the facts straight. Especially when assault rifles and illegal aliens are involved.
Time to play "Where's Bruno"?
I noticed they didn't say Ramirez' legal status.
Yes, journalists wear their collective ignorance of weapons as a badge of honor.
The M-1 fires a 30-millimeter round? Who knew?
It is still amazing that the police can not or do not ask their legal status.
Meanwhile, the Bush Administration blamed a border guard for the shooting and promptly imprisoned one.
8-)
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LOL! If anyone out there knows Bruno, tell him that I love his shirt!
[sarc]Carbine, rifle, whatever. Some kinda gun.[/sarc]
You wouldn’t get much argument from the clerk when you toted that it. ( or from the local cops either). And it would keep the news helicopters from tailing you.
Bush is allowing a very violent culture to enter our country.
30 MM = 1.1811”
THATS A BIG HONKING BULLET!
Actually, .30 is a diameter/caliber.
I’m just glad it was not a black AK47. Those are really scary.......
Same general area, same problem :
A Glenwood Springs police officer was shot in the chest last night but a bulletproof vest helped save him.
Around 11 p.m. the officer contacted two men walking near business and storage lots south of the Glenwood Springs Airport.
The officer gave several verbal commands however, the two men continued walking away until one of the men abruptly turned and filed multiple gunshots from a handgun at the officer.
The suspects are described as:
• Latino males, 18-20 years old...
http://www.postindependent.com/article/20070730/VALLEYNEWS/70730001
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